Filmfest Dresden
16—21.04.2024
Dresden. Cradle of chocolate manufacturing, center of German animation and home of Filmfest Dresden, first held in 1989 (only a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall). If you drive across the Elbe towards Neustadt today, it’s hard to imagine that in recent years the headlines here have been mainly for anti-democratic protest marches—not least because this part of the city is home to Filmfest with its beautiful cinemas, alternative bars, and popular film programmes and is committed to a cosmopolitan and tolerant Saxony.
Those who travel to Filmfest Dresden (the fact that the festival is exclusively about short films is only revealed by its subtitle) will encounter a motivated team (Talking Shorts co-initiator Anne Gaschütz is the best example of this!), lively interest from the local population including long discussions with filmmakers and curators, and some of the highest prize money in the entire short film scene (a total of 67000 euros). And for some years now, Filmfest Dresden, specialising in short fiction and animated films, has also been exemplary regarding accessibility. You see, Dresden is almost always worth a visit. Filmfest Dresden definitely always is.
Text by Daniel Hadenius-Ebner
Reading List
The Veiled City by Natalie Cubides-Brady
A Kind of Testament by Stephen Vuillemin
27 by Flóra Anna Buda
Leandro Goddinho and Paulo Menezes on Paradise Europe
Paradise Europe by Leandro Goddinho Paulo Menezes
Land der Berge by Olga Kosanović
Lake of Fire by Neozoon
Ardent Other by Alice Brygo
How Different Sources of Capital Direct Our Personal Agency
Reading List
An Avocado Pit by Ary Zara
Asterión by Francesco Montagner
Lake of Fire by Neozoon
Short Films From The Basque Country and Catalonia
Maria Schneider, 1983 by Elisabeth Subrin
Staging Death by Jan Soldat
It’s Raining Frogs Outside by Maria Estela Paiso
Skinned by Joachim Hérissé
Simo by Aziz Zoromba
Flores del otro Patio by Jorge Cadena